Craig and Paul are champions
Vintage win for top form Alastair
Craig Lindsay and Paul Foster were crowned Scottish pairs champions on Sunday.
The Prestwick duo beat Elgin 20- 13 in the semi- final at Aberdeen and West Lothian 20- 9 in the final.
They now represent Scotland in the British Isles pairs at Paisley next year.
Darren Weir failed in his bid to retain his Under 18 Singles title. The semi- final was locked 8- 8 with Robert Hunter ( Alloa). Weir won five ends on the trot to lead 17- 14 but Hunter played some cracking bowls over the last three ends to win 21- 17.
Prestwick’s AGM will be held this Sunday within the club at 2pm. The annual finals night and presentation on prizes takes place on Friday, April 14 with games starting at 6.30pm.
Auchinleck trio Bunty Mackin, Jean Sykes and Josephine Williamson lost 16- 5 to Tweedbank in the semi final of SIBA Ladies National Triples at Aberdeen.
On Saturday, the club’s ladies team travel to Dumbarton to play Coatbridge in the semi- final of the SIBA Knockout Cup from 2- 6pm.
Rink 1: E Reid, T Moore, M Sunter, J Williamson; Rink 2: L Hume, M Bingham, C Cowie, H Kay; Rink 3: S Robertson, H Smith, J Sykes, C Johnston; Rink 4: K McGee, B Mackin, I McKnight, M Shimmons.
On Sunday, there will be a play- off in the Baird Bowl’s John Thomson Trophy between Cumnock and Glaisnock Valley from noon to 2pm. Auchinlecck outdoor beat Cumnock 4- 2 in The annual game for the Ambassador Trophy against Prestwick takes place at 4pm. The format is two rinks of ladies, two rinks of senior gents and two rinks of juniors.
Jackie Rankin is sponsoring an open triples tournament on Friday, April 7 from 10am. Contact the club for an entry.
Finals week runs on Monday, April 17 until the presentation on Friday, April 21. Alastair Stewart lifted the Ayrodynamic Tri Club’s club’s first national championship of the year when he won the Scottish Vintage ( 60+) title at the Duathlon Championships.
Daughter Mandy made it a winning family double at Stirling when she took first female place in the shorter Sprint Duathlon while Lorna Sloan made it a club triple success taking e silver in the national super vets Duathlon championship. Karl Owens and Scott Russell were strongly placed in the top third.
Meanwhile, 20 members took part in the club’s spring training weekend near Peebles.
Many of the enthusiasts managed to cram in three cycle runs – including an ascent of the notorious Talla Reservoir climb which boasts a 20% slope, two swim sessions of over 6k and the diehards even slipped in a run session.
The previous weekend, three members took part in the Clumber Park Duathlon, one of England’s major spring events with over 2000 participants at Nottingham.
Mandy Stewart was fifth senior woman with Lyndsey Blair and Emma Luann well placed in their categories.
Competitors in the Ayr Three Castles Duathlon on April 23 will find that run sections from Doonfoot Primary up past Greenan Castle, have become more comfortable, with the hard surfacing of the extension of the Sustrans bike path from Dunure Road to the coast.
This is particularly good news for the organisers, as they are about to accommodate for the first time, a visually impaired athlete who runs tethered to a guide, and who completes the bike section on a ‘ piloted’ tandem.
The race is filling up. Entries via Entry Central.